I remember reading in Grover Krantz's "Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence" that there were two characteristics that he looked for in judging the legitimacy of a BF print, but he had never told anyone what those were. He was very confident in his ability to tell a hoax from the real deal by looking for these two things, but as of the printing of the book, he had never divulged that information.

Did anyone ever figure out what those characteristics were? He felt that he was the only person who knew to look for them, but wouldn't share that info in order to keep it from the hoaxers. Since Grover Krantz is no longer with us, it would seem that he took his secret with him.

An interesting question, that. I have posed it to several people who had dealings with Krantz. A couple of them offered guesses, but no one claimed to have "the" answer.

-Vern

Good Question! I always wondered about that too!

-Sarge

The guy from Indiana who hoaxed Krantz with a fake foot-cast he sent him said he guessed the two features were scars on the sole and toenail marks, so he included them.

Don't forget about the lack of an arch, and 'dermal ridges'.

But those two characteristics were publicly discussed ; they wouldn't have been "secret traits". Also, dermal ridges appear on less than 10% of prints--only in certain sorts of soil with the right degree of wetness--so they could hardly have been a "required-for-validity" feature.

I don't think it's entirely clear whether or not the guy from Indiana _actually_ hoaxed Krantz, or whether the purported hoaxer's claim was itself a lie.

Admittedly, it's not the first time that prints that Krantz accepted have come under suspicion. I think also the 'Cripple foot' prints found in the early 70s in the Blue Mountains have been labeled hoaxes by some, though again, nobody knows for sure, and there were plenty of people who wanted to take Krantz down.

-robin

I made a comment back in January ....last half i think...............about the hoaxer making a footprint with a wrikled potato................the cast or mention of it appears in the Krantz book, Big Footprints..........jon

His analysis of the Cripple Foot casts....to my thinking ....was excellent.